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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1975-02-13

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1975-02-13, page 01

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VOL. 53 NO. 7 ,
FEBRUARY 13, 1975 - ADAR 2
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TOe World's Week
BONN (WNS) — Economic recession and decreasing dissatisfaction with the West German government have established the pre-conditions for radicalism which makes victims of Jews, Heinz Galinski, leader of the West Berlin Jewish community, said at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He charged that West German universities were the breeding grounds for radicals who, he claimed, exploited the apathy of the mass of students. He said it is a sad fact that 30 years after Auschwitz, Jewish property in West Germany had to be protected by the police. Galinski, who is a survivor, of Auschwitz, urged the West German government to take action against German elements whd describe the horror of the concentration camp as a "lie."
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Justice Minister Haim Zadok has named a seven-member committee headed by Mrs. Hadassah Ben-Ito, a senior judge in the'Tel Aviv district court, to examine all aspects of the prostitution problem" in Israel and recommended legislative measures. Prostitution as such is not a criminal offense.in Israel. The Knesset has passed on first reading a bill that would punish prostitutes who annoy their neighbors as "public nuisances."1
WASHINGTON (WNS) r- The United States, "may be facing a situation where the Middle East Is the potential tinderbox that the Balkans actually were in 1914," Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Testifying on the Administration's $9"i.8 billion defense budget for fiscal 1976, Schlesinger said further reductions in American armed forces would not advance'arms control and detente. He said the U.S. had been" sur¬ prised by the ability of the Soviet Union to increase its naval forces in the 1973 Middle East war.
Plan Washington Protest Against Sale Of Michigan Bank To Saudi Arabian Citizen
By Philip Slomovitz
DETROIT, (JTA) - Concerned citizens are raising the Commonwealth Bank issue in Washington to prevent transfer of the bank's controlling interest to a non-citizen from Saudi Arabia. Max M. Fisher declared on Feb. 4 that he views the developing banking situation as menacing to this country. In a telephone statement to the Jewish News from Florida, he declared that he "will not rest in his efforts to protect the American system." Fisher emphasized that he considered it seriously menacing for the control of an American bank to fail into the hands of an Arab. He said it is inconceivable for an American community to permit Arabs who prevent Americans from conducting industrial enterprises In their countries to gain the control of important in¬ stitutions in this country. Fisher declared*, that the move to invade the banking system of America and to gain control of financial
institutions should be prevented at all costs. He said that he intends to appeal to members of Congress and authorities in Washington not to permit the takeover. Saudi Arabian control of the - Bank, of! the Commonwealth and the shock it has created in the Jewish community has developed into one of the most disturbing experiences for many in this community. Sharing the views of Fisher that it is an American and not a Jewish issue, the at¬ tainment of power by oil-rich Arabs in American financial and industrial enterprises is being viewed as menacing to this countryls economy, and the controlling interest by a Saudi Arabian in a leading American bank has another important connotation. Jews have been barred from Saudi Arabia. Jewish members of the U.S. military forces have never been admitted to that
Warn Of Dangers To World Jewry
S
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, opened the WJC's Sixth Plenary Assembly, with a declaration that "the number one problem of Jewish foreign policy is to secure the survival and future of Israel." He also stressed the dangers threatening the survival of Jewish communities in the diaspora particularly in the Soviet Union and Latin America. Addressing 500 delegates from 65 countries, Dr. Goldmann stressed that "every Jew, in my opinion, is entitled to express his views about Israel's policies, but when it comes to the final conclusion he has the duty to stand by Israel, even if he is not in accord with its policies." He said three principles should regulate Israeli - diaspora relations: "The unity of the whole Jewish people and the equality of all parts of it; the recognition • of the sovereignty of Israel by the Jews of the diaspora, leaving the State and its institutions the right and privilege to reach binding decisions on its politics; the recognition by Israel of the autonomy of the diaspora,, not trying to dominate its internal
policies and allowing it to voice its views on Israel's problems."
Turning to external ■ problems, Dr. Goldmann said Israel and world Jewry had to face the facts of the lessening of guilt for the Holocaust by the non-Jewish world; the realignment of the world power structure by the emergence of the Communist bloc of nations and the Third World capable of challenging the democracies upon which the Jewish people have traditionally relied. He called for improving relations with the Com¬ munist bloc and the Third World "particularly because next to survival of the State of Israel, the future of the three million Jews living In the Communist world is a major issue we have to .solve." While hoping for continued emigration for the USSR, Dr. Goldmann said "we must fight for their (Jews in the USSR) right to live as Jews, particularly as they are formally and .constitutionally recognized as a minority." He said Soviet Jewry was threatened "not so much by potential anti-Semitism, although it certainly exists, but by the danger of erosion and assimilation." He said the
country. It was only when the five Jewish members of the press corps that ac¬ companied Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on his first visit to Saudi Arabia resisted being barred from admission with him and their fellow correspondents that Jews were able to enter Saudi Arabia. The Jewish members of
the board of Commonwealth Bank — David Pollack and Alwyn Freeman — have not yet acted to express their protest against the sale of controlling stock in the bank to an Arab. But' scores of Jewish depositors have with- ,' drawn their funds. Freeman's brother-in-law, Royal Oppenheim, and their
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one million Jews in Latin America are threatened by the "danger of becoming the victims of a pre- revolutionary situation which—as our experience of diaspora life proves — tends to make us, as the weakest' minority, the primary ob- W"
He stressed the fragility of a "Jewish nation" in which 80 percent of its members live outside Israel and urged increased aliya. He said It was unrealistic to deny the existence of double loyalty and Jews should fight for its recognition. He said Israel should consider the impact of its policies on Jews abroad. "This is one of the reasons why I have often suggested, from the beginning of Israel's existence, a policy of neutrality for Israel . . ."
Israeli President Ephraim Katzir warned that ."a new anti-Semitism" threatens the Jewish people, one that is aimed not against individual Jews but against the Jewish nation collectively, "This is the new anti-Semitism," he said, "the denial of the Jewish people the right to live as Jews, as part of the Jewish people."
Dr. Gerhart Rlegner, the
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Rabin Reaffirms Support In Step-By-Step Diplomacy
JERUSALEM (WNS) ' — Premier Yitzhak Rabin told the 500 delegates to the Sixth Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress that Israel fully supports Secretary of State Kissinger's step-by-step approach as the "best and most realistic method" of
Pictured above are members of the Beth Jacob Cantorial Concert Committee. Standing left to right: Mr. Al Solove, Mr. Ronald Elkins, Mr. Martin Schecter and Mr. Morris Weinstock. Seated left to right: Ber¬ nard Hirsch, Rabbi David Stavsky, Mr. Ed Beslove, president, Mr. Irv Flox, chairman, and Eugene Cohen. Missing when the picture was taken: Jack Weisman, , Dr. Charles Young, Elliot Levy, Leonard Quinn, Ron Grober, Max Hoffman and Martin Hoffman.
Beth Jacob Synagogue To Honor Alvin Schottenstein
The Thirteenth Annual Cantorial Concert sponsored by -the Beth Jacob Brotherhood will be held this Sunday, February 16; 1975 at 8 p.m. at the Beth Jacob Synagogue. Mr. Ed Beslove, President of the Brotherhood, said," I am delighted to announce- that Alvin Schottenstein, out¬ standing and leading member of the Jewish Community will be the recipient of .this year's "Man of the Year Award". Past recipients were Frank Nutis,. the late Supreme Court Justice Carl V. Weygandt, the late Cantor Phillip Gellman, Herbert Schiff, the late Mr. Mendel Paine, the late Harry Gilbert, Gordon
Zacks, Mrs. Milton J. Leeman, Mrs. Jack Resler, Julius Cohen, and Mr. Dan Harrison.
Mr. Schottenstein is Chairman of Agudas Achim Building Extension Com¬ mittee and has served on the Board of Agudas Achim for many years. He is a mem¬ ber of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Torah Academy* and has worked diligently in helping to raise funds for the new building of the Torah Academy. Mr. Schottenstein 'has been strongly identified with the State of Israel, laboring in behalf of Israel thru his devotion to the Bonds-for Israel organization. Serving
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working toward a settlement of the Middle East conflict. Rabin said Israel would question Kissinger as to the significance of recent public statements by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that neither Egypt nor Syria are planning to attack Israel. He said if Sadat is sincere his pledge should be in¬ corporated into a formal written agreement with Israel. If Sadat did this, Rabin said, it would represent "a. new, opening ... a great chance" for progress toward a full peace settlement in the Middle East.
Meanwhile in Washington, Kissinger said his nine-day visit to the Middle East and West Europe culminating with talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in. Geneva will be "one of exploration. I don't expect to settle anything on this trip." Kissinger is scheduled to go to Israel,' Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, and Bonn and then meet with Gromyko in Geneva..Gromyko has just completed a visit to Syria, Iraq and Egypt.
At the WJC session, Rabin said if Kissinger's step-by- step approach failed, there would be no alternative but to go to Geneva peace conference. He said even if the American approach failed, Israel would have re- ■ enforced its relations with' Washington and the military strengthening of Israel would continue. He said the Geneva conference which Gromyko and Syrian President Hafez Assad 'envision "would be a pressure conference" that "would force. Israel and, perhaps the U.S."too, into a solution that would not bring peape." But he said Israel does not fear Geneva and would go there and boldly make its claims for peace and state its negotiating position on territories.
Earlier Rabin told the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE IS)

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LIBRARY, OHIO HISTORICAL SOO UTY
1982 VELMrt AVE*
COLS. 0. 43211 ' EXOH
2J{\\yf/ Serving Columbus and Centra) Ohio Jewish Community for Over 50 Years \jf^
VOL. 53 NO. 7 ,
FEBRUARY 13, 1975 - ADAR 2
*■
TOe World's Week
BONN (WNS) — Economic recession and decreasing dissatisfaction with the West German government have established the pre-conditions for radicalism which makes victims of Jews, Heinz Galinski, leader of the West Berlin Jewish community, said at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He charged that West German universities were the breeding grounds for radicals who, he claimed, exploited the apathy of the mass of students. He said it is a sad fact that 30 years after Auschwitz, Jewish property in West Germany had to be protected by the police. Galinski, who is a survivor, of Auschwitz, urged the West German government to take action against German elements whd describe the horror of the concentration camp as a "lie."
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Justice Minister Haim Zadok has named a seven-member committee headed by Mrs. Hadassah Ben-Ito, a senior judge in the'Tel Aviv district court, to examine all aspects of the prostitution problem" in Israel and recommended legislative measures. Prostitution as such is not a criminal offense.in Israel. The Knesset has passed on first reading a bill that would punish prostitutes who annoy their neighbors as "public nuisances."1
WASHINGTON (WNS) r- The United States, "may be facing a situation where the Middle East Is the potential tinderbox that the Balkans actually were in 1914," Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Testifying on the Administration's $9"i.8 billion defense budget for fiscal 1976, Schlesinger said further reductions in American armed forces would not advance'arms control and detente. He said the U.S. had been" sur¬ prised by the ability of the Soviet Union to increase its naval forces in the 1973 Middle East war.
Plan Washington Protest Against Sale Of Michigan Bank To Saudi Arabian Citizen
By Philip Slomovitz
DETROIT, (JTA) - Concerned citizens are raising the Commonwealth Bank issue in Washington to prevent transfer of the bank's controlling interest to a non-citizen from Saudi Arabia. Max M. Fisher declared on Feb. 4 that he views the developing banking situation as menacing to this country. In a telephone statement to the Jewish News from Florida, he declared that he "will not rest in his efforts to protect the American system." Fisher emphasized that he considered it seriously menacing for the control of an American bank to fail into the hands of an Arab. He said it is inconceivable for an American community to permit Arabs who prevent Americans from conducting industrial enterprises In their countries to gain the control of important in¬ stitutions in this country. Fisher declared*, that the move to invade the banking system of America and to gain control of financial
institutions should be prevented at all costs. He said that he intends to appeal to members of Congress and authorities in Washington not to permit the takeover. Saudi Arabian control of the - Bank, of! the Commonwealth and the shock it has created in the Jewish community has developed into one of the most disturbing experiences for many in this community. Sharing the views of Fisher that it is an American and not a Jewish issue, the at¬ tainment of power by oil-rich Arabs in American financial and industrial enterprises is being viewed as menacing to this countryls economy, and the controlling interest by a Saudi Arabian in a leading American bank has another important connotation. Jews have been barred from Saudi Arabia. Jewish members of the U.S. military forces have never been admitted to that
Warn Of Dangers To World Jewry
S
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, opened the WJC's Sixth Plenary Assembly, with a declaration that "the number one problem of Jewish foreign policy is to secure the survival and future of Israel." He also stressed the dangers threatening the survival of Jewish communities in the diaspora particularly in the Soviet Union and Latin America. Addressing 500 delegates from 65 countries, Dr. Goldmann stressed that "every Jew, in my opinion, is entitled to express his views about Israel's policies, but when it comes to the final conclusion he has the duty to stand by Israel, even if he is not in accord with its policies." He said three principles should regulate Israeli - diaspora relations: "The unity of the whole Jewish people and the equality of all parts of it; the recognition • of the sovereignty of Israel by the Jews of the diaspora, leaving the State and its institutions the right and privilege to reach binding decisions on its politics; the recognition by Israel of the autonomy of the diaspora,, not trying to dominate its internal
policies and allowing it to voice its views on Israel's problems."
Turning to external ■ problems, Dr. Goldmann said Israel and world Jewry had to face the facts of the lessening of guilt for the Holocaust by the non-Jewish world; the realignment of the world power structure by the emergence of the Communist bloc of nations and the Third World capable of challenging the democracies upon which the Jewish people have traditionally relied. He called for improving relations with the Com¬ munist bloc and the Third World "particularly because next to survival of the State of Israel, the future of the three million Jews living In the Communist world is a major issue we have to .solve." While hoping for continued emigration for the USSR, Dr. Goldmann said "we must fight for their (Jews in the USSR) right to live as Jews, particularly as they are formally and .constitutionally recognized as a minority." He said Soviet Jewry was threatened "not so much by potential anti-Semitism, although it certainly exists, but by the danger of erosion and assimilation." He said the
country. It was only when the five Jewish members of the press corps that ac¬ companied Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on his first visit to Saudi Arabia resisted being barred from admission with him and their fellow correspondents that Jews were able to enter Saudi Arabia. The Jewish members of
the board of Commonwealth Bank — David Pollack and Alwyn Freeman — have not yet acted to express their protest against the sale of controlling stock in the bank to an Arab. But' scores of Jewish depositors have with- ,' drawn their funds. Freeman's brother-in-law, Royal Oppenheim, and their
(CONTINUED CN PAGE 16) •
one million Jews in Latin America are threatened by the "danger of becoming the victims of a pre- revolutionary situation which—as our experience of diaspora life proves — tends to make us, as the weakest' minority, the primary ob- W"
He stressed the fragility of a "Jewish nation" in which 80 percent of its members live outside Israel and urged increased aliya. He said It was unrealistic to deny the existence of double loyalty and Jews should fight for its recognition. He said Israel should consider the impact of its policies on Jews abroad. "This is one of the reasons why I have often suggested, from the beginning of Israel's existence, a policy of neutrality for Israel . . ."
Israeli President Ephraim Katzir warned that ."a new anti-Semitism" threatens the Jewish people, one that is aimed not against individual Jews but against the Jewish nation collectively, "This is the new anti-Semitism," he said, "the denial of the Jewish people the right to live as Jews, as part of the Jewish people."
Dr. Gerhart Rlegner, the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 15) '
Rabin Reaffirms Support In Step-By-Step Diplomacy
JERUSALEM (WNS) ' — Premier Yitzhak Rabin told the 500 delegates to the Sixth Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress that Israel fully supports Secretary of State Kissinger's step-by-step approach as the "best and most realistic method" of
Pictured above are members of the Beth Jacob Cantorial Concert Committee. Standing left to right: Mr. Al Solove, Mr. Ronald Elkins, Mr. Martin Schecter and Mr. Morris Weinstock. Seated left to right: Ber¬ nard Hirsch, Rabbi David Stavsky, Mr. Ed Beslove, president, Mr. Irv Flox, chairman, and Eugene Cohen. Missing when the picture was taken: Jack Weisman, , Dr. Charles Young, Elliot Levy, Leonard Quinn, Ron Grober, Max Hoffman and Martin Hoffman.
Beth Jacob Synagogue To Honor Alvin Schottenstein
The Thirteenth Annual Cantorial Concert sponsored by -the Beth Jacob Brotherhood will be held this Sunday, February 16; 1975 at 8 p.m. at the Beth Jacob Synagogue. Mr. Ed Beslove, President of the Brotherhood, said," I am delighted to announce- that Alvin Schottenstein, out¬ standing and leading member of the Jewish Community will be the recipient of .this year's "Man of the Year Award". Past recipients were Frank Nutis,. the late Supreme Court Justice Carl V. Weygandt, the late Cantor Phillip Gellman, Herbert Schiff, the late Mr. Mendel Paine, the late Harry Gilbert, Gordon
Zacks, Mrs. Milton J. Leeman, Mrs. Jack Resler, Julius Cohen, and Mr. Dan Harrison.
Mr. Schottenstein is Chairman of Agudas Achim Building Extension Com¬ mittee and has served on the Board of Agudas Achim for many years. He is a mem¬ ber of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Torah Academy* and has worked diligently in helping to raise funds for the new building of the Torah Academy. Mr. Schottenstein 'has been strongly identified with the State of Israel, laboring in behalf of Israel thru his devotion to the Bonds-for Israel organization. Serving
(CONTINUED ON PAGE IS)
working toward a settlement of the Middle East conflict. Rabin said Israel would question Kissinger as to the significance of recent public statements by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that neither Egypt nor Syria are planning to attack Israel. He said if Sadat is sincere his pledge should be in¬ corporated into a formal written agreement with Israel. If Sadat did this, Rabin said, it would represent "a. new, opening ... a great chance" for progress toward a full peace settlement in the Middle East.
Meanwhile in Washington, Kissinger said his nine-day visit to the Middle East and West Europe culminating with talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in. Geneva will be "one of exploration. I don't expect to settle anything on this trip." Kissinger is scheduled to go to Israel,' Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, and Bonn and then meet with Gromyko in Geneva..Gromyko has just completed a visit to Syria, Iraq and Egypt.
At the WJC session, Rabin said if Kissinger's step-by- step approach failed, there would be no alternative but to go to Geneva peace conference. He said even if the American approach failed, Israel would have re- ■ enforced its relations with' Washington and the military strengthening of Israel would continue. He said the Geneva conference which Gromyko and Syrian President Hafez Assad 'envision "would be a pressure conference" that "would force. Israel and, perhaps the U.S."too, into a solution that would not bring peape." But he said Israel does not fear Geneva and would go there and boldly make its claims for peace and state its negotiating position on territories.
Earlier Rabin told the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE IS)